Little Brother (Part 6)

This will start off as a summary so when you read you can understand anything that happened. Sorry for any inconvenience.

     Marcus is getting bolder and more public with his first private Internet service. It mainly started with a blog he made after going to a huge open-air concert that supported Marcus’s movement towards more freedom and rights. The people, mainly teenagers and people under the age of twenty, were all caught by the police for illegal activity, which Marcus reported later was unfair and cruel.

     Marcus and Ange started dating, to top it all off. Marcus and Ange started seeing each other most of the time, and they were almost always together in public, though Marcus still kept his identity as the founder of the Internet service (known as the Xnet) a secret.

     Marcus blogged the videos people had taken of the concert on the Xnet, and he made sure that he kept the identities of the people who had taken the videos anonymous, and he kept posting the videos and audio sequences that the people who had been at the concert had recorded, and many responses had come rolling in. All this time, reporters and newspapers around the globe had been reporting on the concert, and when they realized that there was yet another facet to the story, they called up Marcus on the Xnet (his handle (nickname) was M1k3y) and asked him for interviews and conferences.

     Ange had had the idea of calling a press conference on the Xnet. So Marcus obliged and held the conference. When he was done, his story and the people on the Xnet’s stories were being told truthfully across the world.

     I’m not sure what Marcus is doing. He had claimed earlier that this was just a small way for people to rebel, nothing public, nothing major. Just a way to surf the web, play games, and chat without the Homeland Security knowing exactly who you were and what you were doing every second of every minute. But now the police are searching for people using the Xnet on the streets and reporters can access it. And then Marcus called the press conference, which was like a nuclear bomb in the midst of all the chaos, in other words; a lot more chaos to add on to the growing pile.

     The weird thing is that Marcus seems ready to back down at any notice that the people on the Xnet are getting caught and hurt. So it’s like he’s leading them on with the press conference, as if the people on the Xnet can be even more outspoken, and then he reels them back in, telling them to be responsible with identity-stealing and etcetera. This has happened twice by my count so far, and I’m concerned about what Marcus must be thinking. This has turned into more than just a small rebellious group, now it’s a California-wide (and even farther) movement.